A man who should repeat these different passages with the same looks, tones, and gestures, would pass, with his hearers, for a very injudicious speaker.

The whole art of reading and speaking-all the rules of eloquence, may be comprised in this concise direction: Let a reader or speaker express every word as if the sentiments were his own.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS

FOR EXPRESSING CERTAIN

PASSIONS OR SENTIMENTS.

[From the Art of Speaking.]

Mirth or laughter, opens the mouth, crisps the nose, lessens the aperture of the eyes, and shakes the whole frame. Perplexity draws down the eye-brows, hangs the head, casts down the eyes, closes the eye-lids, shuts the mouth and pinches the lips: then suddenly the whole body is agitated, the person walks about hastily, stops abruptly, talks to himself, &c.

Vexation adds to the foregoing, complaint, fretting, and lamenting.

Pity draws down the eye-brows, opens the mouth, and draws together the features.

Grief is expressed by weeping, stamping with the feet, lifting up the eyes to heaven, &c.

Melancholy is gloomy and motionless, the lower jaw falls, the eyes are cast down and half shut, words few, and interrupted with sighs.

Fear opens the eyes and mouth, shortens the nose, draws down the eye-brows, gives the countenance an air of wildness; the face becomes pale, the elbows are drawn back parallel with the sides, one foot is drawn back, the heart beats violently, the breath is quick, the voice weak and trembling. Sometimes it produces shrieks and faintings.

Shame turns away the face from the beholder, covers it with blushes, casts down the head and eyes, draws down the eye-brows, makes the tongue to faulter, or strikes the person dumb.

Remorse casts down the countenance, and clouds it with

is opened, and drawn towards the ear, shewing the teeth in a gnashing posture; the feet stamping, the right hand thrown out, threatening with a clenched fist, and the whole frame agitated.

Peevishness is expressed in nearly the same manner, but with more moderation; the eyes a-squint upon the object of displeasure, the upper lip drawn up disdainfully.

Malice sets the jaws, or gnashes with the teeth. sends flashes from the eyes, draws the mouth down towards the ears, clenches the fist and bends the elbows.

Envy is expressed in the same manner, but more mode

rately.

Aversion turns the face from the object, the hands spread out to keep it off.

Jealousy shews itself by restlessness, peevishness, thoughtfulness, anxiety, absence of mind. It is a mixture of a variety of passions, and assumes a variety of appear

ances.

Contempt assumes a haughty air; the lips closed, and pouting.

Modesty or Humility bends the body forward, casts down the eyes. The voice is low, the words few, and tone of utterance submissive.

securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events and governs futurity. Philosophy is then only valuable, when it serves for the law of life, and not for the ostentation of science.

II.

1. WITHOUT a friend the world is but a wilderness. 2. A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and not a friend amongst them all. If you have one friend think yourself happy.

3. When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavour to be always such. He can never have any true friends who is always changing them.

4. Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries them. 5. Nothing more engages the affections of men, than a handsome address and graceful conversation.

6. Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

7. Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding. That civility is best, which excludes all superfluous formality. 8. Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the man was never yet found, who would ackn. wledge himself guilty of it. 9. Few things are impossible to industry and skill. 10. Diligence is never wholly lost.

11. There cannot be a greater treachery, than first to raise a confidence, and then deceive it.

12. By others' faults, wise men correct their own.

13. No man hath a thorough taste of prosperity, to whom adversity never happened.

14. When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that rve leave them.

15. It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance, as to discover knowledge.

16. Pitch upon that course of lile which is the most excellent, and habit will render it most delightful.

III.

1. CUSTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools.

2. As to be perfectly just, is an attribute of the Divine Nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

3. No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune